> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Friesenhahn > > I am the maintainer for the image processing package known as > GraphicsMagick. A few weeks ago, the FreeBSD port maintainer > for GraphicsMagick became upset and quit. This leaves me a > bit concerned since my project is left in limbo. > > As of yesterday, the current GraphicsMagick releases are > 1.1.14 (legacy stable) and 1.2.3 (current stable). FreeBSD > only offers 1.1.12. There are important security fixes (what > Debian classifies as > "grave") contained in these releases. > > I see that someone has picked up the ImageMagick port. Can > someone please take responsibility for the GraphicsMagick > port so that GraphicsMagick users (e.g. KDE) are not left > behind? Maintaining the GraphicsMagick port is similar to > maintaining the ImageMagick port (except for being much easier). > > It is important that FreeBSD ports make it over the hurdle > and move up to the 1.2.X baseline. There are four additional > years of development and bug fixing in the 1.2 branch. Due to > time constraints, usually only fixes for serious issues are > back-ported to the 1.1 branch. > > Thanks, > > Bob > ====================================== > Bob Friesenhahn > [EMAIL PROTECTED], > http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ > GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/ >
Hi Bob, I just submitted a PR to update GraphicsMagick to v1.2.3 in the FreeBSD ports tree, and I cc'd you on it. All of the post-install tests passed, but if you or anyone else runs into problems with the port, let me know. Regards, Greg Larkin SourceHosting.net, LLC http://www.sourcehosting.net/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
